By David Brown Stanford has created the Center for Blockchain Research, supported in part by the Ethereum Foundation, Stanford Engineering’s website posted yesterday, June 20. The university reportedly established the center in order to examine how blockchain technology can transform traditional business interactions, according to their official announcement. Ethereum (ETH) co-founder Vitalik Buterin tweeted about his, and evidently his Foundation’s, support for […]

By  Scott Brown People are increasingly spending more time outside their home than at home. Increased mobility of an audience is both a challenge and an opportunity for advertisers. People are short of time and there’s a surfeit of information whether they’re looking up, down, or straight ahead. DOOH has emerged as a solution for […]

The US Securities and Exchange Commission has obtained an additional emergency court order from a federal court in Brooklyn, New York freezing assets linked to Dominic Lacroix, the founder of PlexCoin whose assets were frozen when the its ICO was halted amid a fraud investigation in December 2017. Announcing the court order in a communique issued on […]

IN HIS novel “The Radetzky March”, published in 1932, Joseph Roth traces the changing fortunes of the Trotta family amid the demise of the Austro-Hungarian Empire. “People lived on memories,” Roth writes of the era before the first world war, “just as now they live by the capacity to forget quickly and completely.” To the […]

Almost 17 years after the tragic death of R&B songstress Aaliyah, she’s the inspiration for a new makeup line. Makeup giant MAC heard the calls of 26,000 people who signed a petition started by super-fan Jennifer Risinger. The online campaign by Aaliyah fans followed the success of another fan-driven capsule collection inspired by the late beloved Tejano […]

SAN SALVADOR, El Salvador – Nightfall in El Salvador’s capital was fast approaching and Ernesto Pena was waiting for a bus that never arrived. His work day delivering rice and cooking oil to street vendors in the bustling district of Santa Tecla had ended and like most people he was anxious to get home before […]

It’s late at night, it’s raining, and you can’t find a cab. To make matters worse, when you open your Uber app, you’re faced with severely inflated surge prices. Fortunately, there are ways to make the ride-sharing service more affordable, even at peak hours (think: 12:01 a.m. on New Year’s Day). Uber is the largest and oldest of the […]

Janet Jackson has opened up about her struggle to find happiness, saying she “fell easily into despair” but found contentment after becoming a mother. In a candid letter for Essence magazine, the pop star said she had suffered low self-esteem and “intense” depression throughout her life. “Depression is a tenacious and scary condition,” she wrote. “Thankfully, […]

A Facebook spokesperson says they’re in the ‘beginning stages’ of placing video ads in Messenger. After introducing static ads into Messenger last year, Facebook is starting to run autoplay video ads on its messaging app. “We’re in the beginning stages of expanding the availability of video ads to Messenger and we plan to roll this […]

U.S. stocks fell on Thursday as oil prices slid, industrials dropped on worries over U.S.-China trade spat and Amazon led a decline in online retailers after the Supreme Court let states force the companies to collect sales tax. Amazon dropped as much as 1.9 percent, before paring losses to trade down 0.3 percent. Wayfair, Overstock.com, […]